Week ten of the 2018-19 Sky Bet Championship promised to be an exciting round as the table starts to become clear.
Leeds United and Middlesbrough entered this round sat at top of the league but could only produce 1-1 away draws at Sheffield Wednesday and Hull respectively.
West Bromwich Albion were playing at same time as Middlesbrough and knew that victory over Preston North End at Deepdale would see them leap from third to the summit.
Jay Rodriguez opened the scoring for the Baggies shortly after the break when he headed in Jake Livermore’s cross.
Embed from Getty ImagesPreston then equalised through Andrew Hughes’ low free kick before a Ben Davies own goal and Dwight Gayle’s free kick sealed victory and top spot for West Brom, despite Alan Browne snatching a late consolation for the hosts.
The Baggies are now a point clear ahead of Leeds, Boro and Sheffield United who remain fourth after a 3-2 win at Millwall.
Millwall’s defeat means that they are now second bottom after Ipswich’s 2-2 draw at Birmingham City saw them move up a position on goal difference, whilst Preston sit bottom.
Norwich and Brentford round out the top six, as the Canaries beat Wigan through a late Mario Vrancic penalty whilst the Bees could only draw 2-2 at home to Reading.
Swansea sit just outside of play off spots in seventh after dishing out a three goal battering to QPR, above the Lactics and Derby who lost at Bolton Wanderers.
Elsewhere, Nottingham Forest made it one loss in ten after drawing 2-2 at Blackburn Rovers. Lewis Grabban initially gave Forest the lead but goals from Adam Armstrong and Bradley Dack soon had Rovers ahead before Grabban equalised through a penalty.
Rotherham blew an early second half two goal lead after Tom Ince and Bojan hit back for the Potters.
Finally, Bristol City and Aston Villa played out a 1-1 draw on Friday night after Josh Brownhill’s opener for the Robins was cancelled out by a Birkir Bjarnason header in first half stoppage time.
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